PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phineas Gage, Frontal Lobe, Long-Term Memory
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The brain: association areas, associating one thing with another thing, like the meaning of words, cartelization: complex folds fit more information, hippocampus responsible for turning short term memory into long term memory. Amnesia: techniques to study the brain. Mri: detects atomic movement, detect shifts in mass. Pet scan: detects glucose consumption of active brain regions, again able to see blood use in glucose consumption. Story of phineas gage: tamping iron went right through his skull and damaged his frontal lobe, but he didn"t die, he completely changed, went from being normal and able to do his job. To unable to plan and work in his working environment and unable to control his emotions. He had inappropriate behavior and language: frontal lobe controls behavior, mri differences between healthy brain vs. schizophrenic, the hole gets larger with neural death, brain degeneration disorder. About the absence of parts of the brain, the brain is dying: pet techniques and localization.
